Answered Prayers

I am an avid journaler. I still have my journals from high school. I journal all the important and not-so-important things in my life. It's always been a way of release for me where I can jot down all my prayers and the different scriptures that have spoken to me.



Well, yesterday I became distressed and overjoyed all in the same hour! First, I was trying to find my sunflower journal, which is the journal I just finished filling up a few months ago. It contains ALL my journal entries from our entire pregnancy with Jacob. I cannot find this anywhere. Derek and I have searched the entire house, every nook and corner, every drawer, every closet, everywhere. It has disappeared! The only thing I can think of is that it got tossed somewhere in the midst of us packing up boxes. We even went to our storage unit and looked through those boxes of books but we didn't see it. I am so distressed over this and feel so sad because I truly want to share all those journal entries with Jacob when he gets married and is having his first baby. Hopefully and prayerfully it turns up somewhere. I just pray we didn't accidentally throw it away because then I would be devastated.



That was the bad news from yesterday. But something so awesome also happened and I had to share it! As I was distraught from failing to find my pregnancy journal, I came across my journal that I used while struggling with infertility, as well as during both of our miscarriages. I was so amazed at what I wrote during one of my journal entries. Here is a tidbit from an entry dated October 7, 2006:



"Last night my sister gave me a bunch of maternity clothes. I pray I will get the chance to wear them next summer. I truly believe we will conceive by February, and I pray this is true."



Wow!!! I found out in February 2007 that I was pregnant, and Jacob was born October 26, 2007. How awesome is our God?! When I read this, I was so amazed and so in awe. I forgot all about this, but looking back I remember when I wrote this. I remember telling a couple of my close friends that I just knew I would be pregnant by February, March at the latest. But somehow during the time I wrote this and January '07 I got so discouraged and doubtful again.



I think God showed me this so I could see once again how mighty He is and that he truly does answer prayers. He may not answer prayers in the timing we would choose, but His timing is perfect. This is very appropriate for the season Derek and I are in right now. We are waiting on the sale of our home so we can move closer in. We are just keeping our trust and faith in God and His timing. We know and believe that He will direct our steps and everything will fall into place as it needs to.

He Waves!!

Lately, Jacob has been mimicking a lot of the things we do with our hands. His latest is waving. I don't think he understands that he's actually waving, but I captured a little bit of it on video.

Yes, more pictures....

I can't help myself. I just have to take pictures of our little man at every opportunity! I was playing with our camera yesterday and finally learned how to use the black and white setting. I tried to make Jacob pose with Dixie (our labrador for those of you who don't know), but she, for some reason, refused to hold the pose! I kept trying to bribe her with treats, and she would hold the pose for a few seconds but unfortunately Jacob wasn't looking at the camera at those times. Dixie finally got frustrated and left the room, and there was no more coercing her to come back. So, these are the solo shots of the little guy.

Thought I'd throw in some color shots too.

Baby's First Tooth

Jacob cut his first tooth at 4-1/2 months old, but we never were able to get a picture of it. FINALLY, here are some cute recent pics we took of his toothy grin. A little late, considering he's almost 6 months old, but look how cute it is! Now he's working on cutting his second one.

We are moving!

For those of you who don't know, we are putting our house up for sale in the next week or so and will be moving to Plano.

This is very bittersweet for us because we have lived in our house for 5 years now. We have made a very close friendship with our next door neighbors and we hate to move away from them. I know we won't be very far, but it feels like we're breaking up! We also absolutely love our house. We wish we could just pick up our house and move it to Plano. There are just so many wonderful memories that accompany our home, so to leave it is very hard. I thought that I would enjoy moving, but now that it's happening it makes me a little sad.

The reason we're moving is because Derek's job location will be transferring to Dallas at the end of the summer. The drive will be very long and hard from where we live. It will be great also because we will be closer to our family.

We have prayed about this decision and have asked the Lord for wisdom and guidance, and we feel this is what we need to do. Prayerfully we will not have any trouble selling our home and will not run into any stumbling blocks on the purchase of a new home.

In the meantime, Derek and I went and purchased 6 gallons of paint last night and started re-painting our walls last night in order to get our house sell-ready. Anybody want to come over and paint?! Just kidding...no really, anybody? Ha ha!

Here are some photos of Jacob at 4 months old. Isn't he so handsome?

Superman to the Rescue!

One of Jacob's favorite things to do is fly, and he especially loves to fly when the background music is Superman. What can I say? We are a family of superheroes! My husband thinks he's Batman, I have a love for Wonder Woman, and now Jacob relates to Superman.